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World Space Week is being celebrated from 4th October to 10th October over 95 countries annually across the globe. This week is legitimately defined as “an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition”. The Board of Directors of the World Space Week Association decides a theme every year for this week. Under the 2019 theme “The Moon: Gateway to the Stars”, many events focused on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. For this year the theme is “Satellites Improve Life”, wherein it encourages people and young students to learn about the satellites and the numerous ways satellites improve human life.  

On this 20th World Space Week, let us take a look at some of the interesting space quotes and experiences shared by some of the renowned scientists and astronauts on massive space and its wonders: 

1. Nikola Tesla:

• “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
  
• “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
• “The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”

2. Albert Einstein:

• “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
• “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
• “Time and space are not conditions of existence, but time and space is a model for thinking.”

3. Marie Curie:

• “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
• “I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”

4. Kalpana Chawla:

• “When you look at the stars and galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.”

5. Rakesh Sharma:

• “I was the 128th human in space. So I didn’t really sweat about it.”
  
• “The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.”
  

6. Sally Ride:

• “The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to into space carried huge expectations along with it.”
  
• “When you can feel you are close to something you’re used to seeing from a great distance, well, it changes a person.”
  

7. Stephen Hawking

• “Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”
  

8. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam

• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.”
  

9. Michio Kaku

• “Humans are natural-born scientists. When we’re born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.”
  

10. Neil deGrasse Tyson

• “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
  

11. Edwin Powell Hubble

• “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
  

12. Galileo Galilei

• “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.”
  

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